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Robert Caisley

ROBERT CAISLEY

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency  

Robert Caisley is Associate Professor of Theatre & Film, and Head of the Dramatic Writing Program at the University of Idaho. He was named the 2011 Blaine Quarnstrom Visiting Playwright at the University of Southern Mississippi. His play Happy, presented at the 2011 National New Play Network (NNPN) Annual Showcase of New Plays, was a Finalist this year for both the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's New Play Conference and the Woodward/Newman Award for Drama at Bloomington Playwrights Project and has been selected for a NNPN Rolling World Premiere in the 2012/13 season at New Theatre (Miami, FL), Montana Repertory Theatre, 6thStreet Playhouse (Santa Rosa, CA), and New Jersey Repertory. His other plays include Kissing (New Theatre, Coral Gables, FL), the Lake (Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia), Good Clean Fun (Montana Actors Theatre, Missoula), the 22-Day Adagio (Mill Mountain Theatre, Roanoke, VA), Front (developed at Sundance Playwright's Lab and published by Samuel French), Kite's Book (6thStreet Playhouse), Letters to an Alien (Mad Horse Theatre, Portland, ME), Santa Fe (StageWorks/Hudson, New York, Finalist for the Heideman Award), and Winter, which received its World Premiere at New Theatre in Miami in January, 2012.

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         22-Day Adagio, The         Front         Good Clean Fun         Happy         Kissing         Kite's Book         Lake, The         Letters To An Alien         Lucky Me         Masterpiece of Comic. . .Timing!, A         Open Hand, The         Santa Fe         Three Wishes         Winter

22-Day Adagio, The

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Mill Mountain Theatre, Roanoke, Va    

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Front

Front
Set in england during the Blitz, a number of struggling individuals and families come to terms with war and the horrors and tragedies it provides. This includes Judith, a proud matriarch, who works in a factory that makes bomb detonators, her missing husband, Frank, and their two children, Sheila and John, who are forced to grow up much too quickly. A number of other war-torn individuals are also profiled, each butting heads with the raging war. A poignant account of female perseverance, Front is appropriate for all audiences.

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Winner! 1996 Kennedy Center/Fourth Freedom Forum Playwriting Award

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Illinois Wesleyan University School Of Theatre     01 Apr 1995

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full length Drama

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Good Clean Fun

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Montana Actors Theatre, Missoula    

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Happy

Happy
An NNPN Rolling World Premiere Comedy by Robert Caisley. Alfred is happy about his life. He's happy with his job. He's happy with his marriage. He's happy raising his special needs daughter. But when his best friend invites him to dinner to meet the latest woman in his life, things spin out of control.

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Montana Actors Theatre, Missoula     19 Oct 2012

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drama 90 min

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Kissing

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New Theatre, Coral Gables, Fl    

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Kite's Book

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6Thstreet Playhouse    

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Lake, The

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Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia    

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Letters To An Alien

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Hannah is uncomfortable about being Jewish and hates her name. She is sent to live with her GrandFather in the hopes that she will learn from him about Jewish tradition. But GrandFather is unwilling to talk to her and Hannah is more interested in her Game-Boy. aliens intrigued by the sounds of the Game-Boy arrive and whisk Hannah back to Poland in 1943

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Mad Horse Theatre, Portland, Me    

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Dramatic Publishing   978-0871296825

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Lucky Me

Lucky Me
From the playwright who brought us Happy comes a whimsical comedy about love, aging, bad luck and airport security. Sara's having a bad week. Really bad! The light bulbs in her apartment keep burning out; there's a leak in the roof; the aquarium is full of dead fish; the cat's gone AWOL, and her Father -- who chased off her last beau -- is suspicious of Tom, their new neighbor, a TSA agent who just brought Sara home from the emergency room on New Year's Eve with a fractured fifth metatarsal. As Tom's attraction to Sara increases, he learns of the bizarre streak of bad luck that's been haunting Sara for years - twenty-two years to be precise

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New Jersey Repertory Company
179 Broadway, Long Branch, New Jersey 07740     31 Jul 2014

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Masterpiece of Comic. . .Timing!, A

Masterpiece of Comic. . .Timing!, A
New York producer Jerry Cobb has invited wunderkind playwright Nebraska Jones for an all-expense-paid trip to paradise. Cobb has invested all his money commissioning Jones next play, which he believes will eclipse his Broadway debut  hailed by critics as a masterpiece of comic timing. Banking on Jones reputation and momentum, Cobb is disheartened to find his playwright suffering from a severe case of depression: hes morose; he wont eat; he cant write  in fact all he wants to do is drink Cobbs bourbon and sleep all day in the $250-per-night luxury room, at Cobbs considerable expense. Right-hand man, Charlie Bascher, is charged with keeping the kid at the typewriter, distracting him from the booze, and figuring out the cause of his distemper.

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B Street Theatre, Sacremento, California     06 Mar 2016

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full length comedy

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Open Hand, The

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Suppose someone is overly generous and offers you something you couldn't possibly repay. Do you reject their generosity and risk offending them? Or do you accept the gift and then stew over what might be demanded in return? We've all heard the phrase, "It's better to give than to receive." But what dark secrets may be camouflaged by our human need to share with others? "The Open Hand" is a biting satire that ventures into this territory with wit, observing the contemporary anxieties between those with means and those with hopes, dreams and disappointments.

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Santa Fe

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Three Wishes

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part of Notes From the Underground Festival

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Roy Arias Studios & Theatres     2008

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Curan Repertory Company

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Winter

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New Theatre In Miami     01 Jan 2012

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